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The latest 2025 Town Centre Visitor Report from Place Informatics, reveals seaside towns and holiday regions recording strong growth.
A new course aimed at helping autistic young people and those with learning needs access mainstream education is set to start this September.
September 6 saw Victoria Park in Haywards Heath brimming with excitement for Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity’s (DVLCC) annual sponsored walk, ‘Walk Together’.
Brighton & Hove will become an open-air gallery in autumn 2026, as Wild in Art brings a brand-new public art trail to the city.
A new photography exhibition called “What in the World” launched on the evening of Thursday, September 11, at the 35 North Gallery, on North Road, Brighton.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has upgraded the rating for Modality Mid-Sussex from inadequate to good, following an inspection between February and April.
Parents, staff, and learning advisers have joined forces with determination and vision to create something extraordinary: OurPlace Learning Community (OPLC).
Stagecoach South East is inviting Eastbourne residents to come and talk with the team about upcoming changes to local bus services from September 21.
The legendary reggae band Misty In Roots will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a series of intimate shows.
At the meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party last week, Keir Starmer described the threat from Reform and the Greens as a dual threat from ‘plastic patriots’ on the one hand and ‘plastic progressives’ on the other. Nowhere is that clearer than in the battle in the Queen’s Park by-election this week.Reform are fielding a candidate and their Party locally, just as nationally, seeks to sew division, offering no solutions, just anger and outrage. By the same token the Green Party’s campaign makes almost no mention of local issues knowing, as they must do deep down, that they left this City in a mess when they left office in 2023 and locally your Labour council has made great strides in turning things around. There is the Greens incompetence of course - the millions of pounds of public money the Greens squandered on the i360, the closure and mothballing of public toilets, cuts to the City’s lifeguard service and more. But what I want undecided voters to be aware of, is that the so called progressive rhetoric of the Greens falls away as soon as they enter office. I like to call them Tories on bikes, because once you scratch the service you find good old fashioned conservatism rather than the radicalism they loudly proclaim on social media. Take the above three examples, their waste on the i360 has meant our Labour administration has had to find efficiency savings that impact public services, including to our most deprived communities. No truly Left wing Party could have taken such a gamble with public money given – as Labour warned at the time – that the financial projections did not add up and our residents would end up paying the bill. The closure and mothballing of toilets also reveals a Party with little awareness of the role public loos play in ensuring that all members of our community – including those that can’t pay to pop into a coffee shop – have access to the City and the outdoors. Again with lifeguard services, these are essential for a seaside City and especially so to ensure that families unable to afford foreign holidays or expensive summer holiday activities can safely enjoy our beaches. And there are so many more examples: the Greens care little about our council estates and they let council house repairs pile up to over 9000 by the time they left office in 2023. We’ve already cut that down to 2600 and our target is 0. The Greens let HMO licensing lapse and dragged their feet on landlord licensing – perhaps because so many of them are private landlords? By contrast we have reinstated HMO licensing, introduced landlord licensing to hold private landlords to account and we are unleashing a huge boost to social and council housebuilding. Where they equivocate and ultimately serve the interests of those with most in our society, the Labour Party rolls up its sleeves and protects the most vulnerable and those with the least.And this point, that in practice the Labour Party is to the Left of the Greens, doesn’t get made enough in our politics. The Labour Party is the most significant force for progressive change in our country’s history. What our Party has achieved – from the founding of the NHS, to the current uplift to workers rights and the minimum wage – in the comparatively short period of time we have held office, is extraordinary. That the Green Party openly wants to replace the Labour Party makes it one of the most dangerous forces in our politics today.The Greens are deeply cynical. In the byelection in Queens Park they are campaigning on the horrors being committed by Israel in Gaza. Our local Labour Party took an early stand, calling for a ceasefire in November 2023. And Brighton and Hove’s Planning Committee unanimously rejected a planning application from a firm, L3 Harris, which makes components in weapons used by Israel. There is nothing more that as local politicians we can do to influence the atrocities going in in the middle east because we are local politicians only legally able to effect change on local matters. And our Labour Government is working to get aid into Gaza and to secure a two state solution. Yet locally the Greens think it is appropriate to use the deaths of thousands of Palestinians to try and improve their electoral fortunes in a local election. There is nothing progressive about this: it is deeply cynical.At a time when the far right is quite literally on the march, backed by the wealthiest man on the planet, a Green Party that wants to destroy the Labour Party, the main vehicle for working class advancement in the UK’s history, needs to be challenged and voted against.Bella Sankey is the Labour Leader of Brighton and Hove City Council